Roster Verification 2017 Guidelines

State Guidelines

2018 ROSTER VERIFICATION

This document outlines the 2018 Roster Verification Guidelines from the Ohio Department of Education to inform the spring 2018 roster verification process and guide public schools and participating community schools in fully verifying instructional relationships among teachers, grades/subjects and students. These guidelines include: 1) when the process occurs, 2) who will be involved, 3) how to document instructional responsibility and 4) how to handle many special situations so that teachers can verify rosters using the most complete information available.

Scope

WHAT:

Roster Verification is the process that facilitates validation of which teacher teaches what subject to which students in support of value-added student growth measures. Roster verification directly involves educators in the process that assigns instructional responsibility for the students they teach.

Roster Verification allows educators to verify the following four pieces of information: 1. The grades/classes/subjects they taught; 2. The students who received instruction from them; 3. The months during which students received instruction from them; and 4. The percentage of instructional responsibility they had for each student during the months selected (verifying sole ? or a percentage of ? shared instructional responsibility).

Currently, the primary purpose of roster verification is to provide teacher-verified roster data that will be used to develop EVAAS value-added reports. The composite levels from these reports will be included in the electronic Teacher and Principal Evaluation System (eTPES).

WHO: Participating Individuals

? Statewide, all licensed/certified teachers planning and/or providing instruction for students in: o Grades 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 mathematics and English language arts; o Grades 5 and 8 science; o Algebra I for high school credit; o American Government for high school credit; o American History for high school credit; o Biology for high school credit; o English I & II for high school credit; o Geometry for high school credit; and o Integrated Mathematics I & II for high school credit.

? All rosters associated with the grades and subjects cited above must be verified.

? Any public school or community school participating in approved vendor value-added services with Battelle for Kids is expected to include teachers who are planning and/or providing instruction in the applicable subjects/courses. If you have questions about whether your school is participating in one of these programs, please contact a school administrator or Battelle for Kids.

? Teachers in team-teaching situations who are collaborating in student instruction for a course should participate in roster verification.

? Teachers employed outside of the local school district but contracted to provide instruction to students in the grades and subjects cited above should participate in roster verification through the district the students are attending.

? The following staff should not participate in roster verification: o Student teachers; o Substitute teachers who hold short-term or long-term substitute positions; o Teachers employed by Developmental Disability facilities and alternative education providers such as the Positive Education Program, Educational Alternatives and the Marsh Foundation; and o Tutoring program staff or instructional support staff who did not plan and/or provide instruction for students.

When a teacher's roster for a high school course with a state end-of-course test includes students from multiple grade levels, all students in the class should be verified on the roster. Doing so will permit teachers to review their classes in their entirety.

? The superintendent has the responsibility to affirm that verified data will be used in the value-added analysis at the teacher level.

? Community schools that want to receive teacher-level value-added reports must participate in roster verification.

WHEN:

2018 Roster Verification Process Timeframe

Period Training for Principals Training for Teachers

School Setup Period

Date April 2 ? April 11 April 18 ? April 26

April 2 ? April 17

Activities

Principals will be trained how to use the BFK? Link? CE system via online webinars.

Teachers will be trained how to use the BFK? Link? CE system via online webinars.

Principals and support teams can log into BFK? Link? CE to verify the staff list and staff assignments.

Teacher Linkage Period

Principal Approval Period

April 18 ? May 8 May 9 ? May 24

Teachers can log into BFK? Link? CE to: ? Verify classes and test taken; ? Review their class rosters; ? Include student membership in their classes; and ? Assign the percentage of instruction they provided each student.

Principals/support teams should: ? Monitor teacher completion; ? Review submitted classes (instructional responsibility)

and approve them; and ? Monitor alerts.

Principals should: ? Perform final review of classes; and ? Review staff instructional responsibilities and alerts before

giving final approval.

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General Cases

Number of Full-Time Students Teachers who are required to participate in roster verification (i.e., those teaching the subjects/courses described above) should complete the process regardless of the number of students they have taught during the school year. Ohio's value-added provider will calculate minimum requirements for full-time students and sufficient test scores during the analysis phase of value-added report production.

Team Teaching Assignments Team teaching describes a situation where more than one teacher shares the responsibility for planning and/or delivering instruction. Teachers should claim a percentage that reflects their own instructional responsibility for each student they have taught. Each teacher on the team will individually verify a class roster.

Missing Students in Class Roster Teachers shall add students missing from a class roster by doing a thorough search using the "Add Missing Student" feature in BFK?Link? CE, the web application that facilitates roster verification. If the teacher does not find the student after this search, he or she should contact the principal or a support team member, who should contact the Management Council of the Ohio Education Computer Network or Battelle for Kids' application support to have the student added to the master database. They will need to provide the legal first, middle and last name, public school or participating community school student ID, state student ID (SSID), birth date and grade level of the student. Once the support team adds the student to the database, the teacher will be able to add the student to the appropriate class rosters.

If a student comes into a public school or participating community school after the spring administration of the state assessments, the student should not be added to the teacher's roster.

Educator State ID Usage A teacher's Ohio Educator State ID is required for the roster verification process. If a teacher cannot be located in BFK?Link? CE, a new staff account should be created with a valid Ohio Educator State ID. The Ohio Educator State ID is located in the upper left corner of the educator's license, which the teacher or a licensure e-signer can search for in the ODE.CORE application within SAFE. With a birth date and complete name, you also can search for the educator state ID here.

Student Data The names of students used to populate the roster verification application will come from local data sources-- typically, from the district's student information system (SIS). To ensure a consistent name match between what is used in roster verification in the spring and value-added reports in the fall, we strongly recommend schools make regular updates to their records in the State Student Identifier System. Usually, the public school or participating community school staff member who handles Educational Management Information System (EMIS) data can make changes to the State Student Identifier System (SSID) file. If needed, information technology centers can assist districts with this activity.

Student Attendance As long as a student is enrolled in a class and is on the roster, the teacher should account for that student in roster verification. Daily student attendance within a teacher's individual class, however, should not be taken into consideration during roster verification. As per ORC 3319.112 (A)(1)(b), the Ohio Department of Education will remove any student from the analysis who has a total of 45 days or more of excused or unexcused absences during the academic year.

Enrollment Students enrolled for a majority (more than half) of the instructional days available in a given month should be included in roster verification. Expelled students receiving instructional services for a majority of the days available in a given month from an institution outside of the district, community school, joint vocational school or career technical center may be removed from a teacher's roster for that specific time period.

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The rosters of students receiving instructional services from a specialized and separate program within their home district should be verified by the teacher(s) responsible for planning and/or delivering their instruction for a majority of the instructional days available in each given month.

Content Alignment and Roster Verification A teacher should only verify rosters for those classes that are aligned with state learning standards and state tests for the grades subjects/courses cited in the section titled "WHO: Participating Individuals" on page 1. Classes not aligned to appropriate grade-level learning standards and state tests should not be verified.

Class Details Principals and other roster verification support team members should carefully review the class details associated with each roster during the School Setup period of roster verification. It is particularly important to make sure the correct academic term (i.e., Full Year (Aug/Sep - May/Jun), Fall Semester (Aug/Sep - Jan), Fall Semester (FYE/Block), Spring Semester (Jan - May/Jun), Spring Semester (FYE/Block) etc.) is chosen as this affects data used in calculating value-added scores. Teachers providing instruction to students for the entire academic term should claim all months shown.

Unique Cases

Teachers assigned after the school year has started Teachers who assumed responsibility for a class after the school year has started will verify their class rosters beginning the first month during which they taught a majority of the instructional days available in the month.

Teachers who are no longer employed Teachers who are no longer employed as teachers in any Ohio public school ? for whatever reason ? are not included in roster verification. Principals should delete the rosters of these teachers during the school setup phase.

Teachers on Extended Leave Teachers on extended leave in accordance with FMLA guidelines (e.g., long-term illness or maternity leave) should claim instructional responsibility for those months during which they taught a majority of the instructional days available.

Schools have a few options for how to handle class rosters for teachers not present during the time of roster verification. If the teacher is expected to return during the review and approval period, the teacher can meet with the school administrator and provide the information for the administrator to verify and submit the roster. If school policy permits, teachers can verify rosters from a remote computer while on extended leave.

Please note: teachers who plan and/or provide instruction only in the May/June time period are exempted from roster verification.

Intervention Specialists The participation of intervention specialists in roster verification is governed by local school district policy and their role in planning and/or providing instruction.

Substitutes Substitute teachers, whether long-term or short-term, do not participate in roster verification as they are not subject to the Ohio Teacher Evaluation System. Principals are responsible for ensuring that substitute teachers do not verify rosters. Contract status determines whether the teacher is a substitute or not.

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Educational Service Center Rosters Designated educational service center supervisors or directors may perform roster verification administrative functions ? school setup, the monitoring of teacher roster verification and the review and approval process ? for all educational service center rosters composed of students from multiple districts. In cases where an educational service center roster is composed of students exclusively from one district, the building principal will perform these roster verification administrative functions.

Educational Service Centers (ESCs) have several options regarding the verification of rosters composed of students from multiple districts. ESCs with viable data sources (e.g., a Student Information System with Ohio Educator IDs and state student identification numbers) may work with their Information Technology Center to use data extracts from those systems to populate BFK?Link? CE. If such data sources do not exist, ESC educators may make the decision to manually build rosters within BFK?Link? CE. ESCs without viable data sources or the desire to manually create rosters in BFK?Link? CE will have value-added scores derived from available Educational Management Information System (EMIS) data, absent roster verification.

Online Courses Teachers who teach in an online environment can contribute to the growth of students and this can be reflected through the roster verification process. What determines the amount of instructional responsibility is dependent on the teacher's role in planning and/or providing instruction in the online course. Some online courses may not include any planning or provision of instruction, while others may include some, or all of it. Roster Verification 2018 FAQs include scenarios that may assist in making this determination.

Verifying Mastery Learning / Time Variable Rosters In cases where students advance through grades/subjects at highly variable rates, courses should be represented as being proportional to a year-long course. This is particularly true for students in courses using a mastery learning or competency-based model where course time varies widely. In such cases, teachers should claim instructional time equivalent to the proportion of the course they taught, thus they should claim all months shown within the roster verification application if they taught the entire course.

Teachers of Language Arts Language arts teachers should verify rosters if the teacher is responsible for content defined in Ohio's English language arts standards. In schools where language arts standards are taught in multiple classes (e.g., separate reading and writing classes) the percentage of instructional responsibility claimed by each teacher is a local decision.

Courses taken for high school credit by students not yet in high school Students below ninth grade who are taking high school-level courses for high school credit are to take the state end-of- course tests that match the high school-level courses. Further, these students are prohibited from taking the state tests for the courses at their current grade levels.

Special Cases Not Described Here Numerous special cases not described in these guidelines are detailed in a companion FAQ document.

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